I didn’t mean to try to embarrass you. I try to identify medicinal wild plants but could find nothing when I looked it up so figured it was a folk medicine term. D’oh. Please excuse. (I could screw up a one-car funeral.)
But I’d be driving the one car....LOL
This is them:
It’s basically sulfur.
She’d pound them up, mix with whiskey and a raw egg and cure calf scours [runs] in one day.
You can use as it skin powder or mix it with an oil and make ointment or water for a “drench”.
She’d give it to us kids if we got sick.
[yes, the veterinary form and we’re all alive to tell the tale]
In your medicinal plants world, you could just make a heavy duty poultice of onion or garlic and get a weaker version of it.
If she couldn’t cure something with Sulfa, whiskey, honey, turpentine, kerosene or lard, it didn’t need curin’.